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West Virginia chemical spill causes huge disruption for residents
2014-01-12 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Frustration is mounting for many of the 300,000 West Virginia residents who have gone without clean tap water since a chemical spill on Thursday. Business owners with empty dining rooms and quiet aisles of merchandise around West Virginia's capital city were left to wonder how much of an economic hit they will take from the spill. Most visitors have cleared out of Charleston while locals are either staying home or driving out of the area to find somewhere they can get a hot meal or a shower. Orders...
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Coal Chemical Spill Contaminates Drinking Water Prompting State of Emergency in West Virginia
2014-01-10 17:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Residents of nine counties in West Virginia have been told not to use or drink their water after a chemical used by the coal industry spilled into the Elk River on Thursday. Gov. Tomblin (D-WV) declared a state of emergency as more than 100,000 customers, or 300,000 people, are without safe drinking water. The chemical, 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, used to wash coal of impurities spilled from a tank at Freedom Industries into the Elk River, contaminating the drinking water for more than 300,000...
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West Virginia chemical spill: What is 4-methylcyclohexane methanol?
2014-01-10 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: A West Virginia chemical spill into the Charleston-area Elk River Thursday has closed schools, businesses, and left up to 300,000 people without water in nine counties across the state. President Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state of West Virginia, and officials are urging West Virginians of affected areas not to use tap water, which has been contaminated with a chemical used to clean coal. "Due to the nature of the contamination, it is not safe to use the water for any purpose,"...
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Fracking prompts water worries in Fredericksburg, Virginia
2014-01-10 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Free Lance-Star: High on a list of concerns about the prospect of the first-ever gas and oil drilling in Virginia's Coastal Plain east of Fredericksburg is whether it could contaminate water wells and the vast reservoirs of groundwater they tap into. During two packed workshops in December hosted by Friends of the Rappahannock and Caroline County Countryside Alliance, some in the audience wondered who would be liable for water contamination from a faulty well or chemical spill, and how it could be cleaned up....
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PGI to expand in Virginia sources say
2014-01-09 06:00:00| Nonwovens Industry Breaking News
PGI in Waynesboro is investing in more research and development and adding 20 more employees.
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